Members Dale Kirby and Eddie Joyce were ousted from the party and their cabinet positions this spring after harassment allegations against them — some coming from other Liberals.

Since then, their cabinet portfolios have been managed by other members.

Ball promoted Carol Anne Haley, Bernard Davis and Graham Letto into cabinet during a swearing-in ceremony at Government House in St. John's.

Haley takes over the Status of Women portfolio, while Davis gets Advanced Education, Skills and Labour, and Letto is the new minister of Municipal Affairs and Environment.

Davis takes over from Al Hawkins, who now takes the job formerly held by Kirby as minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, while Letto has the portfolio that was formerly held by Joyce.

Siobhan Coady is keeping her role as Natural Resources minister, but she relinquished her Status of Women responsibilities.

"I am pleased to establish the minister responsible for the Status of Women as a standalone ministerial role to further advance women's issues and to promote women in leadership, and I am excited to have this team carry our government's mandate into 2019," Ball said in a news release.

Tensions were high in the legislature after it reconvened two weeks early to debate a number of reports by the province's commissioner for legislative standards. Commissioner Bruce Chaulk found that both Kirby and Joyce had breached the code of conduct, but did not find either guilty of harassment.

Late Tuesday evening, members voted to compel both men to apologize to the house — although they maintained they did not breach conduct rules.